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How are his poems? He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted
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I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
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It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.
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Baby, I said. I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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The Artist, an ancient sage had once said, is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
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… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
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Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
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There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
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I was a man who thrived on solitude without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness
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It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.
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It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
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the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
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I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.
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